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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Joe Sommerlad

China says Trump’s claims of election interference are ‘pure fabrication’

  • President Donald Trump accused China of orchestrating "the largest compromise of election data in history" related to the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
  • Trump claimed China sought to manufacture illegal ballots, acquired 220 million sensitive U.S. voter files, and paid journalists to publish false stories about him.
  • He also alleged that "deep state" actors within the American government concealed key intelligence from him regarding these activities.
  • China's foreign ministry denied Trump's allegations, stating they lacked factual basis and reiterated its principle of non-intervention in other nations' affairs.
  • Former national security officials and Democrats dismissed the President's speech as filled with falsehoods, with California Gov. Gavin Newsom describing it as "the ramblings of a mad king."

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